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Matsudaira, Yoritsune : Prélude en ré pour piano

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Music ID : 4462
Composition Year:1934 
Instrumentation:Piano Solo 
Genre:prelude
Copyright:Under Copyright Protection

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Author : Hirano, Takatoshi

Last Updated: April 20, 2018
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

One of Matsudaira's earliest piano pieces, alongside 'Memories of Childhood.' Composed in 1934, it was included in Volume 5 of the 'Tcherepnin Collection,' titled 'Collection of Modern Japanese Piano Pieces,' in 1935. In the same year, it was premiered in Munich by Alexander Tcherepnin, and a recording of the work made by him was broadcast in Europe. Matsudaira himself acknowledged that he composed this work inspired by the techniques of Alexander Tansman, who visited Japan in 1932. It is thus an important work as evidence of his interaction with these two foreign musicians. Two simple melodic types are repeated twice each over an accompaniment characterized by augmented and diminished intervals. After a four-bar transition, the two melodic types recur, leading to the end of the four-bar phrase. Except for the ending, which concludes on an open fifth, the latter half clearly indicates D major. After its inclusion in the Tcherepnin Collection, it was published in 1953 by Gendai Shicho-sha as 'Contemporary Creative Dance Music – Vol. 1: Piano Pieces.' Subsequently, it was included in Zen-On Music Company's 'Yoritsune Matsudaira: Collection of Pieces for Piano' in 1971, and then in 'Yoritsune Matsudaira: Piano Works' in 1991.

Author : Hirano, Takatoshi

Last Updated: April 20, 2018
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

Along with Souvenirs d’enfance, Prélude en Ré is one of the earliest works for piano by Yoritsune Matsudaira. Composed in 1934 and included in 1935 in the 5th volume of the Tcherepnin Collection, Contemporary Japanese Piano Pieces, this piece was premiered by Alexandre Tcherepnin in Munich, and its recording made by him was broadcast on European radio. This work is important in that it reflects Matsudaira’s friendship with Tcherepnin and Alexandre Tansman, who came to Japan in 1932 and inspired him to write this piece, as Matsudaira says. Two simple melodies are both repeated twice, each accompanied by augmented or diminished intervals. After a transition of four measures, the original melodies are recapitulated, followed by a coda of four measures. The latter half of the piece clearly presents D major, except the coda ending on an empty fifth. Published first by Tcherepnin, Prélude en Ré was included in Contemporary Music for Original Dances: 1st volume, piano music (Gendai Shichōsha, 1953), Yoritsune Matsudaira : OEuvres pour piano (Zen-On, 1971), and his OEuvres pour piano (Zen-On, 1991).

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